HIMSELF in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 As I watched him he adjusted himself a little, visibly.
2 "Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself.
3 He excused himself with a small bow that included each of us in turn.
4 Palmetto who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square.
5 The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
6 Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.
7 Gatsby got himself into a shadow and while Daisy and I talked looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense unhappy eyes.
8 Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
9 Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
10 He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way.
11 Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself a butler hurried toward him with the information that Chicago was calling him on the wire.
12 We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.
13 Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.
14 Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.
15 Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.
16 It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.
17 He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American--that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.
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